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Why should use Ajax technology in your site? . With Ajax, visitors can try multiple different searches without refreshing the page. Another reason that it will return correctly result instead of BLANK PAGE :(. In this tutorial, I will help you create a quick ajax module based on Smart Search component.
Smart Search component have built since Joomla! 2.5. It's still improving for next releases. In order use this component, you must enable all plugin related to this component. Go to Plugin manager > enter keyword "smart search" and enable these plugins.
Next, in Smart search component, click Index button to recrawl data. Processing times depend on your website data. Because all data of Smart search is static, so you should recrawl data several times/week.
Finally, create a Ajax Search module. Go to Module manager > New > Smart Search module.
Then set all necessary parametes and save it.
The result as bellow:
